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The candle softly flickers before the final hour
A strong puff of wind whispers in the quiet
Somewhere in the forest down by the stream
A strange young beauty stumbles in the night

Here I live in the deep of the mountains Friends and foes are all long gone Stay young stranger, light me a fire Hand me the fiddle and I’ll sing you a song

And while I sit in the shade of my dreams Sure is kind for you to come along Stay young stranger – I’ll sing you a song Stay till the shades of night are gone..

(-Dec, 2005, Lansing)

Born in a Kashmiri family and a Global Human at heart, I was brought up in Northern India. I’ve always been a balladeer at heart. Regardless of the circumstances that I’ve done most of my writing in, I still cherish all the words that I have penned, for that’s the only reason I’m still here. This site features a glimpse at my writings, music, travels and few photographs. Hopefully you will get to see the rest in my First Book and more if you run into me on some random path of life.

Check out some of the photos from my Travels here and on Picasa and pictures of my dream meeting with Ruskin Bond and trip to Himalayas – here!

I started playing Guitar seriously around Spring of 2008. I’m self taught and I find it peaceful to serenade the stars at night while plucking away on my Classical Guitar. I stepped into the world of Urdu Poetry in 2003 by a sheer stroke of coincidence mixed with divine grace. I dedicate my interest in Urdu Poetry to my late Grandfather (Nanaji), Mr. Gopinath Kaushik, who himself was a master of many languages including Urdu. Other than that Urdu Poetry runs in our family. My Grandfather (Dadaji) was himself a connoisseur of Urdu Poetry.

After years of collaborating on song-writing, composing and travelling together, Nikhil and I finally decided to convert our dream into a reality. In September of 2009, Iktara was born. After we noticed how our music and lyrics were reaching and touching the hearts of many across the world through the wonderful channel of social-websites, we realized that the time had come to officially launch ourselves in whatever humble way we can to spread the music around.

In February 2011, we finally launched our first digital release Skyas – which is our first step towards taking our music and words to the people. A preview of some of our songs may be seen at Iktara’s website. We are always working on something new and the release of our English Album “Maiden’s Story” is held up due to time-crunch issues.

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The last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That smell is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if it once gets into the blood of a man he will, at the last, forgetting everything else, return to the Hills to die. - Rudyard KiplingAll Original work on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.